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Embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok faced off with House Republicans Thursday at a fiery and raucous hearing where he forcefully defended his actions in the Hillary Clinton email and Russia investigations amid sharp attacks over the anti-Trump text messages he sent.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday that 27 more people have gotten sick in a multistate outbreak of salmonella illness linked to recalled Kellogg's Honey Smacks cereal. This brings the total number of illnesses to 100 people since March, although the outbreak was not announced until June.

Now that Brett Kavanaugh has been nominated for the Supreme Court, a lot of attention is rightfully being focused on what his positions will be on issues such as Roe vs Wade, the Affordable Care Act, executive power, voting rights, and affirmative action.

America's favorite porn star, Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels), was arrested early Thursday for doing her job at a strip club in Ohio. Undercover police officers apprehended Clifford at Sirens Gentlemen's Club, citing three misdemeanor offenses involving illegally touching patrons during her performance, in violation of Ohio state law. After posting $6,054 in bail, she was released, and the charges have since been dropped.

Watching Maryam Nawaz Sharif deliver a speech in May at one of Pakistan Muslim League (N)'s political rallies is an education in poise. Seemingly impervious to the sweltering heat and jostling crowds, the perfectly coiffed Nawaz, who is the daughter of Pakistan's thrice deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, delivers speech after speech without any evidence of a bead of sweat. Two women flank her, but everyone else, the thousands who chant and yell and shout and push and do what is done at a political rally, are men.

While Netflix and HBO battle it out for Emmy supremacy -- with the streaming service edging the pay channel in total nominations, the first time anyone's done that this century -- voters can take a bow for a slate of nominees that both spread the wealth and mostly got it right, barring a few notable exceptions and oversights.

The intimate bond that comedians forge with an audience makes their loss feel more intimate and personal. What remains somewhat mysterious -- and at times mystifying -- is the darker side of stand-up, which has contributed to the premature deaths of so many comedy stars.

The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, barbarous even in an era in which blacks in the South were subjected to untold viciousness, has been reopened, according to a US Justice Department report to Congress.

The gestalt of "the West" -- the postwar community of institutions and liberal values that bound, primarily, Europe and North America -- was already hobbling when Donald Trump took office as US President a year and a half ago.

Older people with higher-than-average blood pressure have more markers of brain disease than their average-pressure peers, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Neurology. In particular, the researchers saw increased signs of brain infarcts, or areas of dead tissue caused by a block in the blood supply to the brain, when looking at postmortem tissue under a microscope.

China's flag carrier is investigating claims a flight from Hong Kong to the Chinese mainland suddenly lost air pressure and dropped 6,000 meters (19,600 ft) because the pilots were smoking in the cockpit and accidentally pushed the wrong buttons.

In a discussion about racism in the Republican party, panelist Angela Rye thanks former congressman David Jolly (R-FL) after he tells CNN's Don Lemon that he believes President Trump has racist tendencies.

When California Republican Rep. Devin Nunes sat before a committee Wednesday to testify on a bill, Democrats tried to use the opportunity to question the House Intelligence Committee chairman on his investigation of Russian meddling and the 2016 presidential race.

The big takeaway of the so far bad-tempered NATO summit is that President Donald Trump has little time for the alliance and a thin appreciation of the track record and historic purpose of an organization that has kept the peace and preserved Western democracy since World War II.